Archives: Speakers

Balint Feher

Balint Feher is a senior clinical research manager at Geistlich Pharma AG. He leads eClinical project at Geistlich, supporting the organization to redesign processes and transition to digital arena. He holds PharmD at Semmelweis University, Budapest and double MSc in computer science and biomedical engineering fields. He has 15+ years’ clinical and 5+ years’ IT expertise in pharma and medical devices industries. Balint’s passion lies in the intersection of clinical, regulatory and IT by leading projects where team can solve complex problems needed combined skillset also at project lead’s level.

Christopher Harrell

Christopher Harrell is the Chief Technology Officer at Yubico where he oversees Yubico’s global team of hardware and software engineers responsible for driving innovative authentication and security products to market. He has more than 20 years of security engineering and architecture expertise along with extensive experience managing and leading teams.

Previously, Christopher served as Director of Security Engineering at Yahoo, and as Information Security Manager at Apple. Together, in these roles, Christopher had the opportunity to secure hundreds of thousands of computers, impacting billions of users worldwide.

Christopher is passionate about the potential for technology to improve lives. He believes that security and usability can co-exist, and enjoys the engineering challenge of proving it.

Aditya Bhandari

Aditya joined Incofin in 2009. He is a Partner at Incofin & also Co Heads the Asian region. He specialises in deal sourcing and value-creation. He is on Board of several Indian financial institutions. He has over 18+ years’ of industry experience spread across investment management, investment banking and corporate finance. He is a chartered accountant and an alumni of Harvard Business School.

Andrew Flegg

Andrew has worked for 20 years in the asset finance industry, with over 25 years in commercial software development. At Alfa, he’s worked on product development & architecture, internal technology, end-to-end solution architecture, cloud and information security; bringing a balance of technology and business focus to his role as CTO.

David Smets

David Smets is an mHealth Solution Specialist at Medidata, a clinical software platform provider. He works closely with life sciences companies and CROs to execute clinical trials that include eCOA, eConsent, and wearable devices, imaging and biosensors. He is passionate about bringing value to clinical research and ultimately improving outcomes for patients through innovation and technology. David has been working in this area for over 10 years, in various operational and commercial roles, focusing on AI, imaging and mHealth solutions.